The Truth Lies Here

by Lindsey Klingele

Overview

Stranger Things meets Men in Black in this funny and eerie young adult novel.

WHAT’S GOING ON IN BONE LAKE? THE TRUTH WILL SURPRISE YOU.

In small town Michigan, Penny Hardjoy, an aspiring journalist, teams up with the nerdy boy next door and the town’s star quarterback to find her conspiracy theorist father after he goes missing and several other people turn up dead in the woods.

The deeper she digs, the weirder things start to get. Townspeople repeat the same phrases—verbatim. Men in black suits stroll around Main Street. Chunks of Penny's memory go missing.

Pretty soon, her research leads her to the long-ago meteorite crash in Bone Lake’s woods, and she’s going to have to reconsider her definition of “real” if she wants answers. . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062380395
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	08/21/2018
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	1,114,026
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.50(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Lindsey Klingele, author of The Marked Girl and its sequel, The Broken World, as well as The Truth Lies Here, was raised in Michigan and now lives in Los Angeles. She has worked in television, in addition to writing YA novels. You can visit her online at www.lindseyklingele.com.

Editorial Reviews

Klingele’s spooky, sci-fi-tinged mystery reads like a YA X-Files in the best possible way.” — Booklist

“A surprisingly heartfelt coming-of-age story wrapped in a zany package.” — Kirkus Reviews

“[M]arvelous...a believable story for teens who love coming-of-age stories in the vein of Stranger Things or science fiction shows like The Twilight Zone or The X-Files. This one has great appeal for most teens who enjoy classic science fiction and a good mystery.” — School Library Journal

“A fun and entertaining read. Recommended.” — Teen Librarian Toolbox (SLJ blog)

From the Publisher

A fun and entertaining read. Recommended.

Teen Librarian Toolbox (SLJ blog)

Klingele’s spooky, sci-fi-tinged mystery reads like a YA X-Files in the best possible way.

Booklist

Klingele’s spooky, sci-fi-tinged mystery reads like a YA X-Files in the best possible way.

Booklist

06/01/2018
Gr 9 Up—Penny is returning for her yearly visit to Bone Lake, MI, to see her father. She's also hoping to get a good start on her admission essay for college by creating a journalistic piece about the town and why the plastics factory died there. But something is not quite right about this sleepy community when weird things start happening. A football player and his girlfriend have disappeared and so does Penny's father. She and her friends spot a charred deer at a local barn party. Soon after, men in black suits are strolling around Main Street. Penny realizes something is afoot when chunks of her memory go missing. Klingele has done a marvelous job here with some beloved science fiction tropes (government conspiracies, Bigfoot, and meteorite crashes), offering a believable story for teens who love coming-of-age stories in the vein of Stranger Things or science fiction shows like The Twilight Zone or The X-Files. VERDICT This one has great appeal for most teens who enjoy classic science fiction and a good mystery.—William Anderson, Scott County Public Library, IN

School Library Journal

2018-04-30
While trying to find her missing father, Penny uncovers a conspiracy in the Upper Peninsula.Penny's father lost her trust when she discovered that he fabricated the cryptozoology stories for his tabloid magazine column. Years later, she returns to small-town Michigan from Chicago, where she has lived with her mother since her parents' divorce, for a summer visit with him, planning on mining the town for an article about its decline due to the recession, which shuttered the local plant that was the area's employer. When her father doesn't show up to meet her at the airport, she thinks he's chasing a story—but the geeky boy next door, her one-time best friend, half-Chippewa Dex, who is now her father's protégé, thinks it's something sinister. After Penny's investigations into local economic woes turn up an oddity (the word-for-word identical response that it's "best not to think too much about it" from anyone asked about an accident at the plant), mysterious federal agent types show up around town, and bodies similar to the mysterious one that prompted Penny's father's latest story start to pile up. Penny becomes determined to get to the bottom of everything, and her well-plotted, conspiracy-laden journey leads her to revelations about perspective and her relationships with various loved ones. Aside from Dex and his mother, all characters are white.A surprisingly heartfelt coming-of-age story wrapped in a zany package. (Science-fiction thriller. 13-adult)

Kirkus Reviews